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Mundus Subterraneus, in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantámorphou Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas

Publication date: 1665

Publisher: Joannem Janssonium

Collection: rogerwagner; americana

Contributor: From the collection of Roger Wagner

Language: gal

Item Size: 3.0G

2 volumes in 1. [30], 346, [6];[12], 487, [9] pp. With 12 copper-engraved plates, 7 of them folding; 6 folding copper-engraved maps; 61 copper-engraved maps and illustrations in the text (some full page); 2 copper-engraved pictorial title-pages; 2 portraits including the frontispiece in Vol. I; small inserted woodcut and small inserted copper-engraving in Vol. II; 3 volvelles inserted intact in Vol. I; numerous woodcuts in the text. (Folio) 38.2x23 cm. (15¼x9"), later vellum, recased with later endpapers. First Edition. First edition of the first scientific attempt to explain the mysteries lying beneath the surface of the earth, from the fiery volcanoes to the burrowing insects. Among the finely engraved plates and maps are stunning depictions of the netherworld, maps of the various continents, illustrations of mining, volcanoes, a

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the edges of the book had lots of tears, some of the text in the middle is cut off, tight, text in the gutter, tight margin thru out the book,
theres a tear o leaf997